Hat carrier for automobiles



Nov. 6,1923. 1,473,338

L. P. CROSE HAT CARRIER FOR AUTOMOBILES Filed Nov. 12. 1921 Patented Nov. 6, 1923.

LEWIS PHILLIP CROSE, OF GARNEGIE, OKLAHOMA.

HAT CARRIER FOB AUTOMOBILES.

Application filed November 12, 1921. Serial No. 514,546.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Lnwrs PHILLIP CRosE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Carnegie, in the county of Caddo and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain Improvements in Hat Carriers for Automobiles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of the invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and convenient device for holding hats in an automobile top.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective showing the device in use.

Figure 2 is a view in the same direction as Figure 1, showing a portion of the device.

Figure 3 is an inverted plan view of the device.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 44 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a sectional View taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 3.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 shows fragments of the upper portions and 11 of two of the bows commonly used to support an automobile top or sun-shade, and also shows the cloth 12 or other flexible sheet material of which said top is usually made and which rests on said bows.

In carrying out the object stated, the inventor provides an elongated holding dos vice adapted to reach in a fore-and-aft'direm tion from one bow portion 10 to the other bow portion 11 and be supported by said portions as shown.

The device includes two main portions which telescope each other for adjustment to conform to the distance between the bow portions 10 and 11 of difierent automobiles;

shaped to hook over the bow portion 10 for support, and near said end said two rod portions are connected structurally together by a sheet-metal clamp 14 which collectively embraces them and holds them spaced apart.

The clamp 14 is held closed together by V V rivets 15.

Near their lineal centers the two rod portions 13 are structurally connected together by a sheet-metal clamp 16 which collectively embraces them in exactly the same manner as the clamp 14, this clamp 16 being shown in detail in Figure 4.

The shorter one of the two main portions of the device includes two portions of rod 17 which, like the rod portions 13, are disposed in parallel and spaced a short distance apart.

Like the rod portions 13, the rod portions 7 are connected integrally together at one end and adapted to hook overthe bow portion 11 for-support.

As best'shown in the right-hand end of Figure 3, the free ends of the rod portions 13 of the longer portion of the device telescope side by side with the free ends of the rod portions 17 of the shorter portion; and said free telescoping ends are embraced. by a sheet-metal clamp 18 shown in detail in Figure 5.

-This clamp 18 is held together by rivets 15, and it frictionally binds'the rod portions of the two main portions of the device just tightly enough to hold them adjusted to any desired length.

In arranging to rod portions 13 of thelonger main portion es hold the hat 19, the two ofthe device are curved outward from each I other, the curved portions 20 being concentrio to points 21. 1 7

Each curved portion 20 of each rod 13, taken with itsmating curved portion. 20 of the other rod 13, forms an-embracing annular holder in which the crown 22 of the inverted hat 19 may be inserted; the brim 23 of the hat lying on top of the rod portions 13 and between said portions and the cloth top 12 as shown.

In placing the hat 19 into the device, one of its ends is temporarily unhooked from one of the bow portions 10 or 11 and swung downward, the crown 22 of the hat being inserted in between the curved porshaped at their ends to hook over said how 10 tion 20 after which the device is again poltlons, the rod portions being centrally hooked up into place. curved to form an embracing ring to receive The following is claimed: the crown of a hat and having their un- 5 In a device of the class described, an eloncurved portion collectively embraced by con gated holding device adapted to reach from necting clamps. 15

one how portion of an automobile top to IVitness my hand this 15th day of Septemanother bow portion, said device including her, 1921.

two rod portions arranged in parallel and LEWIS PHILLIP CROSE. 

